Posted on 10/07/2014 5:30:01 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
An Ohio Democrat argued that “the real issue” with the Ebola crisis is “a disinvestment in the pubic health infrastructure in the United States.”
“This is a very difficult task and I find it very ironic that the very political party and politicians who are criticizing every single step, every single move that’s being made as I said by some of the best public health officials in the world are the same people that voted to cut, you know, over $500 million from the Centers for Disease Control budget over the last four or five years, over $440 million from the National Institutes of Health that could be doing potential research on these kinds of issues to help solve these problems, you know, the CDC is about a billion dollars less in preparedness money than they had, I think back in 2002,” Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) told MSNBC on Monday.
“So these folks who are lobbing these criticisms at the administration and at the CDC, they’re the very ones that cut the budget.”
(snip)
“We’ve got to rebuild our public health infrastructure here in the United States and it’s not as easy as saying, OK, planes can’t come in from Africa into the United States so we’ll just, you know, maybe build another wall and hope that that fixes the problem and it seems these simple solutions don`t work,” he added.
(snip)
“You know, what are you going to do with your big tax cut if you’re in the top 1 percent if you get Ebola? You know?”
Ryan said “it’d be nice” if the GOP would “support the president for a major global public health initiative.”
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They probably would quit flying to those countries if the people who have been on those ebola flights started suing them.
Support candidates willing to SHUT DOWN THE BORDER and stop travel from affected countries!!!
There is NO Way I would be a flight attendant on one of those fights.
Sooo... we have to raise taxes because of Ebola?
Is that what he is implying?
Tax credit?
Guess I’d be boiling mad one minute and lanced the next...
Paying higher taxes does not equal receiving better services from the government.
Absurdity begets Sarcasm to demonstrate it’s pure and unvarnished stoopitity...
(My take on one of the free services I provide)
CDC budget.
2010 - 10.8 billion
2011 - 10.9 billion
2012 - 11.1 billion
2013 - 10.2 billion
2014 - est. 10.8 billion
Most interesting to note is that the Affordable Care Act started taking 600-800 million from the CDC budget in 2012!!!
For what you might ask? To produce public service messages promoting ObamaCare of course.
That’s right. ObamaCare slashed the CDC budget by 9%!
ok, I checked. It is not me, it was at the source.
But sorry to ALL for the typo.
Let me answer that Rep Ryan. With tax cuts comes the ability
for businesses to invest in growth which means more jobs,
more people paying taxes. Instead of a few paying ALL the
taxes, MORE people will pay SOME taxes. That will grow the
economy as it did under Reagan and Kennedy and increase
the nation’s financial coffers.
Unfortunately, Congress cannot not maintain spending dis-
cipline. They will always invent some new way to spend
money and piss away what the growing economy has gained.
Learn to save and spend efficiently, Mr Ryan, and there
will be plenty of money to fight ebola and whatever else
comes down the road.
And I thought they had been doing continuing resolutions all this time. I thought they quit doing budgets.
Obama cuts CDC as he takes on the social needs of Mexico, Central and South America.
“The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) takes a hit of about $270 million in the Obama administration’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget, including significant cuts to biodefense and emergency preparedness programs, officials revealed today.”
In 2010 Obama Administration Scrapped CDC Quarantine Regulations Aimed At Ebola
British Airways stopped flights.
Why wouldn’t they...not enough public outcry against their willful negligence.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) takes a hit of about $270 million in the Obama administration’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget, including significant cuts to biodefense and emergency preparedness programs, officials revealed today.
“Interesting time” we live in, nowadays.
He’s right. Who needs money when they’re DEAD?
What tax cut is that?
Take it out of the fat salaries of bureaucrats. Take it out of the mountains of federal pork to state and local governments.
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